Annette Bening and journalist Kara Swisher will each receive Lambda l Liberty Award at Lambda Legal’s Liberty Awards National Dinner during LGBTQ Pride Month in New York City.
“We are delighted to present our Liberty Awards to Annette Bening and Kara Swisher, a recognition they both so richly deserve,” Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings said Friday morning. “In addition to her well-deserved recognition on stage and screen, Annette Bening is the proud and supportive mother of a transgender son and has long been a steadfast LGBTQ+ ally. Kara Swisher similarly is a leading light in tech reporting and a constant advocate for greater LGBTQ+ representation in the tech industry.”
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and policy work.
“I’m honored to be part of Lambda Legal’s National Dinner alongside Kara Swisher,” Benning said. “We are all inspired by the skill and heart that Lambda Legal brings to the fight for full equality for all LGBTQ+ folks, as well as everyone living with HIV. Please support their work.”
Lambda Legal’s 2026 Liberty Awards National Dinner will be held June 4 at The Glasshouse in New York City.
“I always love an award and it’s even better when you receive it next to Annette Bening — how that happened is inexplicable, but I’ll take it,” Swisher said. “Best of all, it’s to celebrate LGBTQ+ peeps like myself and the many others that Lambda Legal helps to give them equal rights under the law enshrined in the Constitution. It is critical in this perilous time. But mostly Annette Bening.
Tickets and more information can be found at www.lambdalegal.org/libertyawards or by contacting Jennifer@Gala-Office.com.
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